GROUP EXHIBITION

Since ancient times, the mask has served as a mediator between the self and the other, between the human and the divine, between the visible and the hidden. Amorales takes up this symbolic device and inserts it into a field of current tensions, where the face and mask become a space of social recognition and subjectivity confronted with media saturation, technological control, and the precariousness of cultural narratives in globalization.

The dialogue established with the iconic figure of El Santo, the Silver-Masked Man, is fundamental. By recovering this symbol of Mexican identity, Carlos not only refers to a popular icon, but also exposes the fragility of collective identities in the face of global discourse. The wrestling mask, which in its original context protects while simultaneously constructing a myth, here becomes a metaphor for a lost search for identity, an attempt to cling to cultural signs in the face of homogenization.